VALUES Commitment, Professionalism, Transparency, Ethics, and Efficiency. MISSION To provide legal services according to these values and offer strategic and customized solutions to the client´s business, aimed at establishing a lasting relationship that aggregates value to the company and brings effective results. The law firm AAA – Albino Advogados Associados, founded in 1990, stands out for its customized legal services that fulfill the needs of each client. Such flexibility helps the clients with achieving their objectives, irrespective of size or line of business. AAA is committed to act with commitment, professionalism, ethics, and transparency, choosing always the most efficient and economical solutions for the specific business of each client. Working as a legal advisor, in preventive and ligation practice, the law firm offers strategic customized solutions in all legal practice areas. By means of a modern and integrated system of management and services, the law firm makes available to all clients, at any time, the complete legal support of an entire professional team. AAA adheres to innovative, dynamic, effective, and expeditious legal practice focused on results. This model ensures more complete and efficient services with an excellent cost-benefit relation. In addition to the traditional areas, AAA responds to new social and economic trends and their reflections on legal practice, to stand out in segments where professional performance depends on expertise and specific technical knowledge such as, for instance, within the scope of the antitrust, capital market, and environment areas, and in structuring operations, tenders and infrastructure projects joining public and private ventures, such as the so-called Parceria Público-Privada – PPP. antitrust enforcement agencies ACQUISITIONS, SPLIT-UPS, CONSOLIDATIONS, AND MERGERS (Sistema Brasileiro de Assistance during all the BUSINESS / CIVIL Defesa da Concorrência – CADE, phases of the process of acquiring Contracts and consultancy in Secretaria de Direito Econômico – and disposing of companies, the commercial area for deals SDE and Secretaria de Acompanha- in particular by preparing due between companies or individuals. mento Econômico – SEAE). diligences, structuring operations, ANTITRUST Actions required by the Brazilian drafting and negotiating contracts. follow-up of administrative REAL ESTATE ENTERPRISES AND CONTRACTS INTERNET / E-COMMERCE and court proceedings Drafting contracts and Structuring, developing, and involving relations with the assisting in structuring real carrying out new businesses by consumer. estate enterprises, such means of innovating platforms and as shopping malls, real systems. CONSUMER´S RIGHTS Preventive consultancy and estate developments, hotel enterprises, residential and commercial condominiums. JOINT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISES (PARCERIAS PÚBLICOPRIVADAS – PPP) / TENDERS PRIVATIZATIONS AND TENDERS Advisory services to Advisory services aimed at SUCCESSION PLANNING AND FAMILY OFFICE developing projects that make Designing the privatization of state- feasible the execution of succession structures, owned companies and of contracts under Joint Public including the formation tenders in general. Analysis of and Private Enterprises and of trusts abroad. administrative contracts. Tenders. companies participating of Practice areas ADMINISTRATIVE AND COURT LITIGATION AND ARBITRATIONS PROJECT FINANCE, CORPORATE FINANCE AND SECURITIZATION Defending the client´s interests Designing and structuring in all the areas where the financing operations, projects COMMERCIAL DEFENSE firm is engaged before the related to infrastructure, and Acting in investigations governmental agencies, the securitization of receivables. to impose antidumping courts and in arbitration rights, and safeguards of procedures. compensation measures. ENVIRONMENT activities from the legislation FINANCIAL AND CAPITAL MARKET INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSES viewpoint, consultancy in Designing Advisory services environmental matters, defining operations focused when setting up subsidiaries, strategies for projects and on fund raising. branches, offices and for the defense in court and Foreign financing, representations abroad, and administrative proceedings. investment and when reinvestment advisory doing international business. Analysis of the regular status of services. LABOR RELATIONSHIPS TAX Prevention and corrective advising, Tax planning for the regular review of labor and social security activities of the companies, subordinates in litigations at the Labor CORPORATE RECOVERY AND REORGANIZATION Courts, and filing of defenses and Designing and structuring recovery. Administrative appeals in the administrative sphere corporate reorganization and court defenses in the with the Brazilian Social Security operations in general. litigation area. procedures, preparing documents for the defense and the action of Service, the INSS, with the Labor Ministry, and with the Labor Attorney General. investment operations, new businesses, consolidations, split-ups, mergers and tax PRODUCING HIGH TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE AND STRATEGIC VISION TO ACHIEVE THE BEST RESULTS Characteristics FOLLOW-UP QUALIFICATION AND EXCELLENCE SOLUTIONS AAA has a team of professionals Each case is jointly analyzed partners by means of constant qualified for their technical by the team specialized in meetings with the team, and the excellence, large corporate the area, focused on seeking client is informed regularly with experience and broad view of solutions that ensure the consultations to the procedural business strategies. best economy and efficiency information systems. At all the stages, the cases are followed up by one of the to the clients. PARTICIPATION The clients are involved in all INFRASTRUCTURE With easy access and the stages of the process and ATTENTION TO THE CLIENT informed in a pro-active manner All the possible legal actions are facilities in the cities where about the progress of the services discussed by the office team it is present are modern with the objective of achieving the with the client, and the strategic and functional, with results sought for each case. decisions are made jointly, in a fully comfortable meeting rooms transparent manner. and advanced telephone free parking, the law firm and technological devices to ensure the best quality of services to the clients. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCOPE AAA acts abroad through its associated law firms with reputable technical qualification, in cooperation with local professionals. Partners Focus on Capital Market and Infrastructure USP, 1969; master in Compared Law – New York University, 1975; doctor in Economic Law, USP, 1988; professor at PUC/SP – post graduation, author of books in his specialization, ex-Director of CVM, member of Administration Boards of company and financial entities. Languages: English, French and Spanish e Fernando Albino Focus on Corporate, Commercial, Mining, Regulatory, and Competition Law USP, 1976; master – USP, 1982; author of papers in specialized magazines. Ex-director of juridical departments of multinational companies, president of Comissão de Estudos da Concorrência e Regulação Econômica (Commission on Competition and Economic Regulation Studies) of OAB/SP, member of IBRAC, member of the Editorial Board of Revista de Direito Minerário (Magazine of Mining Law). Pedro Zanotta Languages: English and Spanish Focus on Financial Market Law and Regulation; Bank, Company, and Corporate Law; and Corporate Governance and Compliance PUC-SP, 1979; specialized in Corporate Law (USP) – 1980; in Accounting and Financial Management (USP) – 1980; and in Business Administration (FAAP) – 1981; he took part in the Program of Instruction for Lawyers in Harvard Law School and in numberless congresses and workshops in Brazil and worldwide; professor of FGV (GVLaw); ex-juridical director of banks Santander, ING, and Chase Manhattan; he is member of Legal and Compliance Committees of ABBI and of Committee of Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions and Committee of Corporate Risks of IBGC; he was president of the Legal Committee of ABBI; he was member of Juridical and Compliance Committees of FEBRABAN. Languages: English and Spanish Focus on Corporate, Real Estate, Labor Law and Civil Litigation UNICAP, 1995; post graduation, UFPE, 2001; MBA – FGV/RJ, 2010. Language: English Alvaro Van Der Ley Lima Neto Focus on Judicial, Extrajudicial Litigation, Arbitration and Real Estate Law Milton Campos College - MG, 1999; post graduation in Company Law, FGV/RJ, 2001. Idioma: English Raquel Batista de S. Franca Focus on Civil and Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Cândido Mendes University/RJ, 1997; post graduation in Economic and Company Law, FGV/SP, 2007. Idioma: English Diogo Dias Focus on Tax Law USP, 2004; specialization in Tax Law, IBET, 2006; now in mastership Financial Law, USP, 2012. Idioma: English Cesar Augusto Seijas de Andrade Focus on Administrative Law, Bids, and Public Private Partnership - PPP PUC/SP, 2003 Idioma: English Fábio Luiz Peduto Sertori Partners Focus on Labor Law, Civil Litigation and Civil Responsibility UFF/RJ, 1974; post graduation in Environmental Management COPPE/ UFRJ, 1977; specialization in Comparative Labour Law at the University of Porto – Portugal, 1985; master in Business Law, PUC/RJ, 1980; Ph.D. in Civil/Civil Liability, UERJ, 2011; professor at the University Estácio de Sá/RJ. Languages: English and Germany Valeria Abbud Jonas Spanish Desk Central University of Barcelona, 1994, PhD and Master on Commercial Law, both from the Law School of the Central University of Barcelona (UB), 1995. Member of the Barcelona Bar Association (iCab) and in the process of approval for the OAB/SP (Brazilian Bar Association). Responsible for the “Spanish Desk” in the AAA. Antonio Ramallo Fernández Expertise: Corporate Law, Contracts, Agreements between partners, Purchase and Sale of Companies, PPPs (Public-Private Participation) and Infrastructure, Banking and Insurance, Restructuring and M&A – Mergers and Acquisitions, Business and Succession Planning, and Foreign Investment. Involvement in cases of project finance and private equity, MBO, LBO and BIMBO, helping Spanish and Latin Americans customers in the defense of its interests in Brazil. Secretary of the Legal Committee of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Brazil. Professor of Commercial Law and Banking, Insurance and Securities Market of the Central University of Barcelona – School of Economics. Speaker at various seminars in Spain and abroad on subjects of their specialty. Legal advisor of the Center for Innovation and Development (CIDEM) for companies in the government of Catalonia. Secretary and Director on the Boards of Directors and Legal Counsel of many Spanish companies. 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